Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.

This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system.

Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world.

Pat Bracken is a
psychiatrist who questions many of the fundamental assumptions of
his field. He has worked as a psychiatrist in rural Ireland,
inner-city and multi-ethnic parts of the UK, and in Uganda, East
Africa.

Bracken, who holds doctoral degrees in both medicine and
philosophy, calls for a movement toward critical psychiatry. He was
one of the people involved in starting the Critical Psychiatry
Network, an organization of psychiatrists, researchers, and mental
health professionals that question the assumptions that lie beneath
psychiatric knowledge and practice.

Through his clinical practice and his academic work in
philosophy and ethics, he has seen the limits and dangers of
standard approaches to mental health in the West. As a result, he
has become an advocate for listening to different understandings of
madness from those who are routinely ignored and dismissed —
namely, service-users and people who themselves experience madness,
and those from indigenous and non-Western cultures.

About the Podcast

Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.
This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care and mental health. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking mental health around the world.
For more information visit madinamerica.com
To contact us email podcasts@madinamerica.com